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Within the institution of the family, functionalism affects the views of society as it identifies how the family contributes to the stability of society. When society looks at the function of the family, it often becomes the function of society to bolster those family functions that are not working.
This essay explores further changes that may lie ahead as same-sex marriage debates increasingly affect both family law and the social meanings of marriage. Marriage as an institution has changed most dramatically because of the cumulative effects of the last half-century of de-gendering family law.Same-sex marriageâand perhaps even more so, the highly visible cultural debate over itâis contributing to this process.ame-sex relationships have already significantly altered family law, by leading to new formal relationship statuses and incorporation of the principle that both of a childâs legal parents can be of the same sex.